Medical Errors In Psychiatry

Medication errors in psychiatry: a comprehensive review

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Due to differences in research design and denominators used to determine error rates, the reported prevalence rates of medication errors in psychiatry vary widely. Patient-related factors identified as contributing to medication errors included non-adherence to …

Medication Errors in Psychiatric Care: Incidence and …

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How Medication Errors Can Affect Your Mental Health

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A medication error is one category of medical errors that refer to any mistake in diagnosis and treatment. At the same time, a medication error is referred to as …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

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Medical errors cost approximately $20 billion a year. Medical errors in hospitals and clinics result in approximately 100,000 people dying each year. Medical …

Medication Errors in Psychiatry: Are Patients Being …

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.54.5.599

Studies in general care settings have found similar disparities between rates of independently detected errors and self-reported errors. We believe that all psychiatrists …

Medical errors in psychiatry - PubMed

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Medical errors in the general medical sector result in significant patient deaths and injuries, as well as high costs to the health care system. Despite the growing …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - StatPearls

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Due to unclear definitions, “medical errors” are difficult to scientifically measure. A lack of standardized nomenclature and overlapping definitions of medical errors has hindered data analysis, synthesis, and …

Medical Error - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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A medical error is a preventable adverse effect of medical care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. Among the problems that commonly occur during providing health care are adverse drug …

Medication errors in mental healthcare: a systematic review

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Methods: A systematic literature search for studies that examined the incidence or cause of medication error in one or more stage (s) of the medication-management process in the …

Medical Errors in Psychiatry : Harvard Review of …

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Medical errors in the general medical sector result in significant patient deaths and injuries, as well as high costs to the health care system. Despite the growing literature on errors in …